That's how you know these pitchers have a ton of respect for Alvarez...he is leading off the inning with a 2-0 count and Max throws him an off-speed pitch on the black (actually was a ball per the tracker). Does Max realize the game is played for 9 innings? Dude looks like he's pitching the 9th inning of game 7 every pitch...
That was absolutely that low strike which he was pounding but obvious he’s just trying get on at this point and get going
He totally is. I don't like it. He did at least get the walk. I'd like to see him take a big rip on 3-1.